Concerns :The Crucial Question.
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Politics has always diverted our attention from the fact that ethics forms the very foundation of true religion.And any religion is only as much religion as it is ethical, -and not unethical. If we agree to at least in principle to this truth, we can at once get rid of all tradition and orthodox ways of living, that are simply just unethical.
But because of propaganda of politically motivated (false to the name) religions, we have been oblivious of this core-fact. This is a fact, because we can discuss with a free mind what is ethical and what is not; - what is unethical. There is also a code of conduct followed by all men of ethical conscience, and this code of conduct varies to significant extent from one to another society.
A religious group is invariably a loosely woven structure where people follow / observe / practice certain rituals and traditions with less or more rigidity. Every religious group is founded upon a set of 'beliefs', some of which possibly could be proved to be baseless, untrue, even false. Not only that, some of such 'beliefs' are in fact very harmful for the society and humanity as well in many ways.
The core belief which is also called faith is about of the existence of 'God': -one or many. 'Religion' does not allow to inquire into the truth of this belief. The simple fact that (the concept of) such a 'God' could not appeal to many skeptics, non-believers, agnostics. For most of the people, this word does not evoke a response. It is a word like so many innumerable words we use in our conversation, just because we have heard and uttered / repeated this word many times just for convenience. This does not prove / let us know our-self that we know what this word tells about. In other words, we are really totally ignorant about the meaning, exact or round-about, of this word. And though this word slowly gets crystallized in our mind in the form of a 'concept', that concept is formulated and structured according to the social conditioning of our own specific religious group which we belong to. This means, what is 'religious' for our group may not necessarily be 'ethical' according to many other 'religious' groups. We therefore see the differences between various 'religious' groups or religions could never be resolved. And to reach at some common agreement / consensus is almost impossible.This has been the very reason why all religions have always been against each other to the extent of exterminating them at any cost.
This is purely an unethical approach and here we have to consider / there is this urgent need, we should attend to this crucial question : if ethics should not be given an upper hand over religion?
It is not difficult to see that 'religion' could never be understood properly by any of us, where-as every-one of us could instantly be very clear about what is ethical and what is unethical for the good of humankind as a whole. And let us stress that 'humankind' does not limit the 'ethics' because man could also see that humankind could never prosper, survive and be happy in isolation, cut-off from the rest of the living things and beings, 'nature' as a whole.
These things could be and should be given attention by all those well-wishers and thinkers who are concerned about this question of Ethics, Religion, Politics of different 'states', 'progress'.
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Politics has always diverted our attention from the fact that ethics forms the very foundation of true religion.And any religion is only as much religion as it is ethical, -and not unethical. If we agree to at least in principle to this truth, we can at once get rid of all tradition and orthodox ways of living, that are simply just unethical.
But because of propaganda of politically motivated (false to the name) religions, we have been oblivious of this core-fact. This is a fact, because we can discuss with a free mind what is ethical and what is not; - what is unethical. There is also a code of conduct followed by all men of ethical conscience, and this code of conduct varies to significant extent from one to another society.
A religious group is invariably a loosely woven structure where people follow / observe / practice certain rituals and traditions with less or more rigidity. Every religious group is founded upon a set of 'beliefs', some of which possibly could be proved to be baseless, untrue, even false. Not only that, some of such 'beliefs' are in fact very harmful for the society and humanity as well in many ways.
The core belief which is also called faith is about of the existence of 'God': -one or many. 'Religion' does not allow to inquire into the truth of this belief. The simple fact that (the concept of) such a 'God' could not appeal to many skeptics, non-believers, agnostics. For most of the people, this word does not evoke a response. It is a word like so many innumerable words we use in our conversation, just because we have heard and uttered / repeated this word many times just for convenience. This does not prove / let us know our-self that we know what this word tells about. In other words, we are really totally ignorant about the meaning, exact or round-about, of this word. And though this word slowly gets crystallized in our mind in the form of a 'concept', that concept is formulated and structured according to the social conditioning of our own specific religious group which we belong to. This means, what is 'religious' for our group may not necessarily be 'ethical' according to many other 'religious' groups. We therefore see the differences between various 'religious' groups or religions could never be resolved. And to reach at some common agreement / consensus is almost impossible.This has been the very reason why all religions have always been against each other to the extent of exterminating them at any cost.
This is purely an unethical approach and here we have to consider / there is this urgent need, we should attend to this crucial question : if ethics should not be given an upper hand over religion?
It is not difficult to see that 'religion' could never be understood properly by any of us, where-as every-one of us could instantly be very clear about what is ethical and what is unethical for the good of humankind as a whole. And let us stress that 'humankind' does not limit the 'ethics' because man could also see that humankind could never prosper, survive and be happy in isolation, cut-off from the rest of the living things and beings, 'nature' as a whole.
These things could be and should be given attention by all those well-wishers and thinkers who are concerned about this question of Ethics, Religion, Politics of different 'states', 'progress'.
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